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Scavenger Hunts in ELT

Laura Loder Buechel explores the many ways that scavenger hunts can add fun, movement, collaboration, and practical applications of knowledge to English language learning.

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Dive into the newest issue of English Teaching Forum, where fresh ideas meet classroom creativity. Explore engaging approaches to American short stories, student goal-setting, poetry, and language, plus a practical technique called Language Anchors. Inspiring, innovative, and ready to use—this issue brings energy to every lesson.

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My Classroom

Author Deirdre Derrick explains how she started a student-tutoring program at her university, with a step-by-step how-to guide that takes readers from the initial stages of planning, through recruiting and training the tutors, and then to starting and sustaining the program.
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About English Teaching Forum

English Teaching Forum is a quarterly journal supporting the teaching of English around the world through the publication of innovative, practical ideas. It is published by the U.S. Department of State. Over 60,000 copies of the magazine are distributed in more than 100 countries. We welcome submissions from English language teachers around the world. Most of the authors published in English Teaching Forum are classroom teachers.

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